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“Make the Rest Day, the Best Day”
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We live in a physical restless world; a culture that keeps us physical tired.
We are a society of overcommitted, overworked people.
We are always in a hurry; rushing here and there to do this thing and that thing.
We live in a society of emotional restless people, people who are not satisfied with their lives; they are always looking.
Looking, craving, desiring something, or someone they don’t have.
We live in a society of Spiritual restless people, people who have no peace in their hearts.
Their spirit is troubled, they have no assurance of their salvation.
They don’t have any spiritual rest!
God designed our body, soul and spirit to need rest; and God himself provides this rest.
Have you ever seen RIP on a tombstone?
Someone dies, and their family puts rest in peace on their tombstone.
But I want to tell you it takes more than RIP on your tombstone to give you rest.
And if you don’t have rest before you die, putting it on your tombstone after you’re dead, is not going to give you rest.
The Bible says there’s no rest for the wicked; they are like the trouble to sea.
Our sinful hearts make us restless.
God has made a way for you to have a rest; not just physical rest for your body; and emotional rest for you mind, but spiritual rest for your soul!
Here in these verses Jesus is having another conflict with the religious establishment of his day.
· They have accused him of blaspheming; because he for gave the sins of the paralyzed man.
· They have criticize him for eating and drinking with publicans and sinners.
· Their upset because he and his disciples don’t fast as often as a thank they should.
Now they accused Jesus and his disciples of breaking the Law of Moses on the Sabbath day,
V:2-“why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath days”?
These religious leaders are seeking to discredit Jesus by saying that He didn’t honor the Sabbath day.
What is the Sabbath day?
And why is it important?
There are actually several Sabbath’s mentioned in the Bible:
· Creation Rest.
God established the Sabbath day at creation; in -“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified
it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Saturday is the Sabbath day; it was the Old Testament day of rest.
The word Sabbath means rest, it means a ceasing of work.
Yesterday was the Sabbath; today is not the Sabbath, today is the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day.
We worship on Sunday not on the Sabbath day; because it is on Sunday, that Jesus rose from the dead.
When you read that God rested on the seventh day; you ask yourself why did God rest?
Was he tired?
God can’t get tired, and if God doesn’t get tired, why did he rest.
We defined rest as getting over being tired.
But that’s not what it means in the Bible.
When God created the world, he stepped back and said, “It is very good”.
And then God rested.
God rested because He was utterly satisfied with what he had done.
The definition of resting is to be completely satisfied with what is done.
God was satisfied with what he had created, and He rested.
· Covenant Rest.
Covenant rest pertains to the nation of Israel; God gave his special covenant people a day of rest.
The fourth commandment:
-“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work…
The Old Testament Sabbath was a reminder to the Jews of their covenant with God.
The Sabbath was the day that they worshiped in the synagogue, and they rested from work.
They were to rest their body and their soul as a sign of their dependency and loyalty to God.
He was considered a great sin to break the law of the Sabbath in Jesus day.
· Calvary Rest.
The Sabbath day, like all the ceremonies and types of the Old Testament point to Jesus.
Jesus said in -“I must work the works of him that sent me, what it is day”.
Jesus came, and He did the work that God sent him to do; and on the cross, Jesus bowed his head and said; it is finished!
The work of redemption is done!
The Bible gives us a beautiful picture of the resurrected, ascended Christ at rest:
-“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God”.
Jesus did his work, it is finished, and now he is sitting down, something the Old Testament priest never did.
There was no chair in the tabernacle, because he Old Testament priest work was never done.
The Old Testament Sabbath was a shadow; and Jesus is a reality.
· Coming Rest.
“There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
For he that is entered into his rest, has also cease from his own works…
There is coming a day when we will be in heaven and all our work and effort will cease.
There will be no more battles with sin, there will be no more war against the world and the flesh and the devil.
We will be complete, have a glorified body and mind and we will finally be at rest!
Today we live between the rest that’s found at the cross through faith in Jesus; and the coming rest in heaven.
So how do we experience this rest today; between Calvary and the coming of Jesus?
In these verses in , Jesus declares himself to be the “Lord of the Sabbath”- the Lord of rest; and he tells us where rest comes from.
#1 Rest comes:
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From Surrender, not Performance!
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The conflict the Pharisees have with Jesus takes place on the Sabbath.
The Sabbath was a day intended to be a blessing for the people of God.
-“The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath”.
Jesus and his disciples are walking through the grain fields, and they pick some grain, rub it between their hands and eat it.
What Jesus and his disciples did was not against the law.
As a matter of fact it was God’s way of providing for his people.
In the book of Deuteronomy, God told his people; if you go into your neighbors standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand and eat it, but you’re not to harvest your neighbors standing grain.
So it was acceptable for Jesus and his disciples to help themselves to the grain.
This was part of the legal code of the Jewish people.
But the Pharisees did not see it that way; they were the self-appointed Sabbath police, and they thought they had spotted a violation.
V:2-“why are you doing that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day”?
These religious leaders thought they had caught Jesus and his disciples red-handed breaking the law of the Sabbath.
The fourth commandment says, keep the Sabbath day holy, and don’t work on the Sabbath.
Why with the Pharisees think that picking grain and eating it was against the Sabbath law?
Because the Pharisees had developed a long list of rules and regulations for keeping the Sabbath.
In their minds, to ensure that people didn’t violate the Sabbath, they built hundreds of fences around the fourth commandment to keep people from breaking it.
They thought that Sabbath rest came from what you did not do!
If you kept their rules; make sure that your performance is in keeping with the law then you could have Sabbath rest.
According to the Pharisees rulebook; there were over 1500 things you could not do on the Sabbath.
They took a day of blessings, and turn it into a day of burdens.
So in the case of Jesus and his disciples; in the eyes of the Pharisees Jesus and his disciples were guilty of a double violation.
· First, they were traveling too far on the Sabbath; the Pharisees had a rule that said you could not walk more than 3000 ft.
from home.
· Second, they were harvesting, and threshing on the Sabbath day.
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